Bouchard Pere & Fils, Chevalier Montrachet Grand Cru La Cabotte 2018

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Reviewed by: William Kelley

Revisited in bottle, Bouchard's 2018 Chevalier-Montrachet La Cabotte Grand Cru has turned out beautifully, mingling aromas of crisp green orchard fruit, fresh peach, citrus oil, honeycomb and buttered toast—much as it did a year ago. Full-bodied, satiny and incisive, its textural attack segues into an ample, youthfully tightly wound mid-palate girdled by racy acids and underpinned by chalky structuring extract.

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Reviewed by: William Kelley

The 2018 Chevalier-Montrachet La Cabotte Grand Cru is a terrific wine in the making, wafting from the glass with scents of crisp green pear, citrus oil, white flowers and blanched almonds. On the palate, it's full-bodied, racy and multidimensional, with terrific concentration, texture and structural tension, concluding with a long and penetrating finish. The Cabotte can almost match the amplitude and voluminousness of the Montrachet this year—and it's racier and more vibrant—so it gets my nod as Bouchard's finest white wine this year. Only four barrels were produced.